ARM Data Discovery Tool Provides New Data Delivery Methods

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Published: 11 April 2017

The updated ARM Data Discovery Tool features three new data delivery options: Globus, THREDDS, and Dropbox.

All the data collected through the ARM Climate Research Facility have to go somewhere, but it’s not easy to pack them all in—or deliver them from—one spot. Every month, hundreds of users access the ARM Data Archive to download portions of ARM data collections at rates from 20 terabytes (TB) to 25 TB per month.

“Globus will make sure all the files you order are securely transferred to your system,” Prakash says.

Users preferring a commercial file-hosting service can use the Dropbox option. Users can link their personal Dropbox accounts—a 2-gigabyte account is free—to ARM’s institutional-level account and not drain their space. Meanwhile, if you’re looking for specific data in a large file, THREDDS allows users to extract the measurements they need using a variety of remote data access protocols.

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The ARM Climate Research Facility is a national scientific user facility funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The ARM Facility isoperated by nineDepartment of Energy national laboratories, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory.